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U. S. Has Three tear Thrust Lag Bv The Associated Press WASHINGTON—How far he ld is the United States behind e Soviet Union in terms of tket thrust? Dr. Wernher vor f Bun has estimated the lag at ree years. Here is the reply of Dr. Hugh Dryden, deputy administrator the National Aeronautics and ace Administration: “We don’t ow how far we are behind. I \ 11 tell you why: the Russians ive shown us one basic rocket about 800,000 pounds of thrust, is is their ICBM booster. They ye used this throughout their ace program. i "Until they show us the magni- j le of the next step and when, is very difficult to get any fix . iwhat their rate is. This is our (Mem. ' “If they do not come out be- : ue early 1963 or 1964, then we 1 surpass them. Immediately id months later they might leap- s» us. We do not have any ae rate information on what the it step will be that they are i ling and when they will bring FIRST it out. We assume they are work ing on a bigger booster.” Dryden gave this estimate Mav 15 before a House appropriation: subcommittee; his testimony was released Wednesday. Dan Davis Leaves Monday for Tour Of South America Dan R. Davis, associate profes sor in the Texas A&M Department of Agricultural Economics and So ciology, will leave June 5 on a three-month study tour of Guate mala, Costa Rica, Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. The project is under the direc tion of the Office of Foreign Pro grams at A&M, and the Ford Foundation. Davis will contact a variety of agency employees in each country to obtain information for orien tation and in-service training of A&M teacher-researchers who serve in Inter-University Contract Programs abroad. Davis also will gather material for enrichment of a sociology course in cultural anthropology. Last summer, he made a similar study of problems encountered by American families adjusting to the cultures of India, Pakistan, Ceylon and the Philippines. 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THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD A • PART IN MAKING THIS ONE OF THE 1 BEST YEARS EVER IN AGGIELAND. 1 THE GRADES, THE SPIRIT, THE CO- 1 OPERATION HAVE BEEN THE BEST 1 EVER. Wegenhoft, Rektorik Receive Faculty Achievement Awards Robert James Rektorik of Robs- town and Travis Lane Wegenhoft of Columbus have been named winners of the annual Faculty Achievement Awards at Texas A&M. Rektorik has just been graduat ed with a bachelor of science de gree in agricultural engineering and was selected for the honor because of his outstanding ac complishments in the School of Agriculture. sergeant in the Cadet Corps, mem ber of the Newman, Club, member of the student branch of the Amer ican Society of Agricultural Engi neers, and he was elected to Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi hon orary societies. Wegenhoft Wegenhoft was also selected for his outstanding accomplishments in the School of Agriculture and while in college, he majored in agricultural education. Corps, president of the Collegiate Future Farmers of America Chap ter, treasurer of Alpha Zeta, staff member of the Agriculturist mag azine, member of Phi Kappa Phi and vice chairman of the Student Agricultural Council. Both of these students’ names will be inscribed, along with win ners in previous years, on a large bronze plaque hanging in the Dairy Science and Biochemistry Building. AND WE HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE BEST MEN ANYWHERE. THE TEXAS AGGIES •l Rektorik Past awards won by Rektorik include a $500 Ralston Purina Scholarship, Distinguished Stu dent for four semesters, and a $75 prize from the Texas Concrete Masonry Assn, for an outstand ing design of agriculture' struc ture in concrete masonry. While in college, his extracur ricular activities have been first Previously he received the Sears Foundation tour of Mexico, a Dan- forth Summer Fellowship, Sons of American Revolution Award, and was named a Distinguished Mili tary Student. 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